Stovepipe water-heater



(No Model.)

B. R. AUSTIN. STOVEPIPB WATER HEATER.

Patented Feb. 27, 1894.

WITNESSES NrrEn STATES EMMET R. AUSTIN, OF NORWALK, CONNECTICUT.

STOVEPlPE WATER-H EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,640, dated February27,189. Application filed May 22,1893. serial No. 475,089. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMET R. AUSTIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Norwalk, in the county of Fairtield and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inStovepipe Water- Heaters; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention has for its object to provide a stove pipe water heaterwhich shall be adapted for general use but especially adapted for housesnot provided with a running water supply, and which shall be made insections and provided with suitable pieces for connecting the sectionstogether, for connecting the lower section to the stove, and for theconnection of the upper section with the stove pipe, and suitable pipesfor connecting the sections to each other, and for connecting the upperand lower portions of the heater with a suitable hot water tank, itbeing required that the construction be simple, durable, inexpensive andpractically impossible to get out of repair.

With these ends in View I have devised the novel construction which Iwill now describe referring byletters and numbers to the accompanyingdrawings forming part of this specification in which Figure 1 is a viewpartly in elevation and partly in section illustrating a single sectionof the heater in place upon a stove and connected to an ordinary pipe,and also showing the connections to a hot water tank; Fig. 2, asectional view illustrating the manner in which two sections areconnected, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the base piece which engages theordinary pipe collar upon a stove or range.

A denotes sections of my novel heater, B the base piece, a connectingpiece, and D a top piece. The sections consist of inner and outer wallsdenoted respectively by 1 and 2, and top and bottom walls denotedrespectively by 3 and i, which connect the inner and outer walls leavinga passage through the section for the products of combustion. Hubs 5 areprovided at the tops, bottoms or sides of the sections, wherever theymay be required,

for the connection of pipes, the only diiierence between single, top,bottom or intermediate sections being in the number and location of thehubs. If a section is designed to be used as a single section as in Fig.1, it is provided on the outer side near the bottom with a hub for theconnection of a cold water pipe 6 and on the outer side near the topwith a hub for the connection of a hot water pipe 7.

\Vhere two sections are used as in Fig. 2 the bottom section is providedon its outer side near the bottom with a hub for the con nection of acold water pipe and the top section is provided on its outer side nearthe top with a hub for the connection of a hot water pipe. The lowersection may be provided with a hub on its upper side and the top sectionwith a hub on its under side for the engagement of an intermediateconnecting pipe 8, or if preferred, instead of providing hubs on the topand bottom respectively of the two sections as in Fig. 2, two singlesections provided with hubs as in Fig. 1 may be connected by anintermediate pipe which would of course lie outside of the connectingpieces. This form is not illustrated in the drawings as it is so obviousthat illustration could not. make it any clearer.

Where more than two sections are used the intermediate section orsections need not have any hubs upon the outer side but may be providedwith hubs on the top and bottom which would be connected to the othersections by intermediate connecting pipes lying inside of the connectingpieces as in Fig. 2. It is obvious however that any number of singlesections made as in Fig. 1 may be connected by pipes outside of theconnecting piece. lhese sections are in practice cast in a single piece.The base piece consists of a plate 9 which is adapted to rest upon thetop of a stove or range indicated by E and is provided with a collar 10adapted to receive the ordinary pipe collar 11 of the stove or range,and with an outer flange 12 provided with an inwardly extending shoulder13. The lower section passes within the top of the flange and rests uponthe shoulder as shown in the drawings. The top piece consists of a topplate 14: having an outer flange 12 provided with a shoulder 13 whichrests upon the top section, and with a collar 15 adapted to receive astove pipe 16

